The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, September 13, 1946, Image 1
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CAMDEN. SOtrni CAROlAiA. nuOAY, SEPTEMBER 1S,'1»M
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uthoriliet Seek Killer
Of Chat. Speight Of Blaney
Bhi^-Hannony
Boxes Thrown Oat
b FoaBd On Hii^wag
Milm From HU
gffOckMi AntooMbfle
J. C ARRAinS, HOUSE MEMBER
ELECT. WOULD BE SPEAKER
Coroner Holds No
Inquest Necessary
In Gas Killing
CterlM Speigkt, colored, reel
^ tte Blaney commanltjr mtur-
H SB altercation or was he the
o( B bit and ran drlTer?
Ilty Sheriff J..H. MeLmd. who
boKlinf three suspeetn. me
iw <d the th tbel
jbU since the monilnf of
jt S4, when the body of Speight
Ifcmnd at roadside foor miles this
of Blaney, scouts Um theory.of
ind nm drtrer. So does Dr. A. W,
lea, county physleiaa.
(u> aa I SB concerned.” Bepnty
lUted, ‘1 am eonrlnced
jt wu murdered and his body
to the place where it wna found.
_ H was in SpsiShCs own car.
tUa was done and later the car
Tracked when It left the road
BUney.”
t deputy aheriff went on to state
IS a witness who operetea a gar-
It Bbmey. who tsBs of flzlag a
y^t OB the Speight car jnst be>
■idaight on Angnst SS. Ihla wit
aames three other negroee who
with Speight at flie time. Theee
I were taken into cnstody and
It the county Jail for queatlOB
L deputy said that Speight’s head
Ibadly battered and that na
lad reraalad that it wap i
oB hla head that had caused
liath.
A W. Hummriea. who pm
4 the antqpm declared that
It had been striflk aewere blows
a Munt instriMMat and two of
wwe sufficlattt to canae death,
county health offlbar ridlcnled
itaUnieBt that the man met’
by being streck by an aato-
r kilUng occurred seuMtliiie be>|
kaidniglrt on AignsC Si 4:S0
p on the montUg of 14.
of the affair was kept aaeret by
lathoritiet wbilo aererni claes
jbolng mu down.
Votera Wulad Tkdr. BalloCa
In T1b«M Two Frocfaicte
Of Coimly
Tbc hallots cast at Blanair a«d Bar*
la tbo eteetloa -SepteiDbor
were not counted in the final tabula*
tlon of the Kerahaw county retnras.
This was due to the fact that
neither precinct had reports the
boxes to the election board wrlthln
the S6 hour period required by law.
The throwing out of these two
boxes did not effect the general re-
salt of the election, merely. wnUfag
eome of the totals diffareat than ro-
ported in the uaoffletel raturaa aa
glTen In the Chronicle last week.
lUldfli BmiMM Mini HnH
TsJom No Ch—caa Againal
. Booth Act
Woman Struck
As She C^rosses
Business Street
Udy With TW
qaUm Hoopitol
Aflir AecMoat
Leawlng a note^ addresaad
nnwoi H Mmy Cooeern". & A. SM*
daU. a.yaaiX)M Raleigh. N. C.. phetO.
graidiar took hla own life rbrniih
hreathlag earboa moooxida gaa which
ha had piped Into his car through a
houe ttau attadhed to the exhaaet pipe
and carried thnwgh a saull
in one of the aide wlndowa.
The car with Slddell'a'corpee aea|*
ed oa the front seat was toaad m p
side road la the Wateree Mill wiltaga
Iqr a mfll operatlwe named Ihyte
sen last TInrsday wem in the BM>ra*
lag. Neiaon notified (he p<diee and
RoproaantotiPo En*
WUh A Foiwiol
Three new candidates for praaldlag
hitices of the state house of repreeeo-
U^ee hawe announced since last
Tocodays jwiiaary to bring to sight
the total aamber of caadMatas.
J. Clator Arraats. former .
mmaber from Kershaw coaaty. a
Gloomy Lindsay Pierce Is
Downcast Over Chances Of
His 1946 Camden Hi Squad
Many Offenders
Are Rounded Up
hi PoKce Haul
Pohit# to Other Teams Studded
With 4-F Football Talaiit
■eaa Uw speakership pro tempwa,
RapeaaenUUwe J. M. Mfwrtson.
Qeeegatowa city attorney, aakl he
Wo|M run for the post of speaker pro
tempore, and Brace UtUeJohn. former
flpartanburf represeaUtiwe recently
rpaomlaated, had aaaoeaced for the
apaekerahtp.
PMfWloealy. Repreeentatlte Tom H.
fOpa, Jr., of Newberry and Gharles
Fiewdea of Clarendon had anaounoed
^ the epeaherehlp. before Speaker
mi Batt of BarewreH aald he woidd
again seek the office he has held
Gun Fbe;
it b ItBrie
Hinson Charigoe
Fired lo Self Defo
That
ttle Hinson, well known taxi
clsiBis that whan ha pulled a
>d shot Jack Bolden la the leg
nth Broad street Sunday nig^t,
wu acting in aeU defenae.
arrested by the police and
>ed before Magistrate Blyther,
1 1500 bond, and win fight tha
|b« states.
i declared that Boldea aged
rk (or him and claimed that he
|bim )20. Hinson says that prior
ihootlng, Bolden accosted him
kreatened to “get him”. When
invited him to “get me" now
•tsrted (or him.
bad his hand In his pants
and I suspected he was going
a gun on me.” said Hinson. “I
my revclver and fired at hl^
on’s bullet struck Bolden in the
below the knee
iband Missing;
i Foul Play;
teal Mystery
Jay walking, eia of tka sfwfls of
Camden and many other small towns,
claimed a rletlm on Bast DeKalh
streat Wadneaday monitv when
Katie Oaines. *ag^ woman, oroaalBg
th# street In front of the TbomM
Tawern, was struck by u autorno.
Mle.
Mrs. Osinas was croaslng from the
north to the south alia walkad
In hack of an automobile Uiat. ae*
cording to eye-wltnassas, was hewing
out from a pailElag apnea. Whathar
or not m wheal of tha ear pasted ewer
the wemnn could not be ascertained.
fhe was In greet pain whan pleoed
in an ambolanee and takaa to fhe
hospital. Thare It.wna found ahe 1
n fraetand hip..
Mn. OnittM wB) hp rumamherid m
being the wmmn. pe^lNtuipar mm
hunTiilK piohiK V^h jmr anas Ihll pL
gardqn Qbwera. At ^ thM ef tha’
nedtet Wedmaduy. ahe was carry
ing n big bonghet of flowers. Aa the
amhulaaoe bore to away, fhe flowers
ware at to feet' on the stretcbec.
Orer in Cdumhia, and la many
other prograaalTe cities. Jay walking
la made ptmlaheble by arraat and n
fine.
(bganize Units
For Infraction
hi Sales Activity
A matting will be held Monday
night at 8 o’clock in the American
LiSglon ball to diacuSa plans for tha
organlsaUon of ratall sailing claasaa.
Larry Thompson, who la promoting
the program, states that the meeting
will be for all merchants and am-
ployeea. Mr. Thompson la with the
sUte hoard of education and itatea
that tha expense of these classes is
by the state and govanmenL
Veterans who are interested In retaU-
ing are tovtied to attend the meeting.
Boyi and gl^ ht high school. If
they take the training, will be glvra
preference over other persona in tM
enp«l^ of help. A meeting of high
school Btudenta, to be held to toe new
future, win
Thompson.
Officer Stanley Roes made toe tiTta msi imi year*.
tIgaUon. w^ reeulted to the snmr TB«preaeBtotlv«e Fred Hlen of
mon^ of Coroner Pndry Lee. A cor- |hig, Lwefa Whllaee ef York aad J.
«er’a Jury wm togpeieled. b«t U wee ftoto Anderaoe of Oreeiwoed were
ftoally enimeheei by toe eenmar tliat|^.utoer eaeooeead ceedldutee for
eo tequeat would be held, atope the
dreumstaaeea todleatei a clear case
of sukidh.
A note on the seat beaMa the body
waa addreeeed “T» Wham It May Cob- _
earn”, annmmoed that ao owe was la-hl
valTed to 4lia death df toe writer, that^
he was tirad of Vvlag and waatad to
die la the aumaer eanled oat. Ha
mm hla aidrees aa m Farwu Roi^
Raleigh, had adMd ihak Mi wMh and
■OB be notified. Tha car he maa la,
ha said la toe aeie, beleaped te Ms
eaa at RMelgh. He raiaeited toe aa-
thorium to notify hia wtta mk mm
ef hia daato. AlaO en toe eaiMBp her
aide toe hidr were two ueeM letotoi*
eao addraiaid to hla wllh sad tha
atto ta^hla fern
The h^ waa reaioved to the Kor-
aegay Feaeral hoam ahd Mr
gay flcatoaled fha famRy at RaMgh,
RIddell’a eon arrived here to the aftor-
aooB aad the bady waa removed to
Sale%li where fuaaral
intariMBt were to take plaea
Mr. Kornegay stated Uwt SiddaU
had been deed ateee toe nlitot
ipnic tbdiiq.
dh
eprriUBy paepared-tba ear for
to
Raeklaae Drivar
Topa list
Camden’s Mue-ooatad toreadert
■taged a genuine roundup Friday and
Saturday, Angnat 8041, but It didn’t
happen to be iteera or other denlteas
of the range. Some fifteen drunks
an afoul of toe police, aecmrdfng to
toe police blotter recordings.
Soma of
Camden football fans will g«t their
took at tha 1040^ulldog team
^liht when Camden Aatttea Blahop-
7**** toe local field/ Qsfne time be-
iat • e'eloek.
Tbs allbirde, some of them wiee
M etoeru atlierwtae In the analyeie
jpid pieturus, who have been wan-
***• ••• to '"'•rtch
toe Rulldega put the flnleblng touchee
to the pruoUee that has prevailed
tr* •••he eneampment In
toe Meffh Oarallna meuntaint. are
1 toeir expert epihions to
toe effoel toot toe Camden equad la
reen and very light.
Tha reaarvtd opinion as to the pley-
toe lads who -had lookod
too long on too flowing bowl or It qualitloa loadt to tho belief that
amro tompore apeakanhlp.
tmaUB ] to tha honab Id II
votantqfillS itRifha aivy,.
Sbnto barollna
to dcMPtoia irertk'*tir ^ ^
■m^iff ^ hdUM of lagreasnto
I M (hat mr mmnmm ab f
■ tormar, Mi
ma ta
aadj-aetaran qi
as ubMkar fora
av^ miMbpcdUl gat (to
tost
-(aad
1 wib
avagy effort to
brouiht aai
^IfoaVaia.*
aaa (hat sB
t on ^ flai
—Tha State
e b Dead
Of Fire
■aklde aet by parking at toe aMo of mj^yv ha ^
tbe road an the mUe-naed a«e^ Of TJawid Hrlkoaild im To
or Karatonr
laadbig from Halle street to
way near toe J. C. Mwtag home to
the mill rillaga. The opealng ta the
glass panal throuMt wbidi the lethal
hoee waa earrled had boMi csrefally
■toffed with rags.
MembMW of the Slddril family are
reported to have declared that they
were unable to acconnt for the rash
act to their husband and father. They
said that ha had not appeared undnly
depreeaed when he left hia home a
few days prior on a bnalnaaa trip.
■fit fonito urreMad hha fopaday aad tpu ^
Imaftsad^M aa.AhaMaacfo«k..M Uumi SI ”
ItoLSiiL g ‘iSTtog
Kershaw Coua^
Ml
Fund
ien
Woman, Wadded
^ To Montana Rancliar,
Fears Tha Wotat
Eva Beivln Young McFall, tl,
ipesled to the autherltlaa to lo-
l®r SS-year-old husband. Murphy
T ahe married Snitembw
[• rifice of Judge N; C. Anmtt.
City after an aeqaatotanea of
toys and which grew oat of
topondence oontaet made
the medium of a LaaMy
publication.
[dieted wife told Mgflstrate
iMyther this aMMrhlagYlak her
Mt her Monday toHilBg ta
Mmbla to do an
ilil?* iitoi wRh m
^ ^’WR1 .*•
I rife 'SXMI^ MkA* -* *“■—
■ by
aaeerfo
heJTw
he a
>We.
\m story Mm
l.0Nhaad
an I
to
« wao a
Kershaw eonnty has ffled appllca-
tlona with tha stats reaeareb, plan
ning and development board for fed
eral funds for toe eonatraetton of
three improvements projects.
The projecte, laclnda a waierworke
extension program eatlmatad’ at |48,-
000; street ImiMrovementa at $141,000;
and sanitary aawaraga atAM,000.
—The Cohunhia State.
be addressed Mr.
Radio Service
Added To Store
The Camden Fnraitnre company
iBoaa the. opening of a radio ser-
Cuaaing Coat Him Plenty
Moae Ballard, oolmwd. M some tall
and fancy ensstog to front of « Mill
street home on September $. Police
were called and they arreited Ballard
for natog obacene and trdeoant lang-
naga. Ha wag forced'to poet a $78
for appearance to recorders conrt
the charge preferred by the police
on
Mrs. Sallte McDonald, age 47, la
dead aad bar hnshaad, David McDoo-
aid. Route 0, Karahaw, la ta a critical
ooadiUou at the Camden hospital aa
the result of a tfare that started, from
an exploMtag oO stove to their farm
haato Tuasday aftaraooa.
Mrs. McDonald’s clottitag
ignited when she aouMit to pat out
toe biasing stove. Her haabaad to a
heroic effort to peg out the flamei
enTrioptog hla wife; waa bsAy hurnad.
Four Utile ehUdiwa of toe coufo^
playing outsida of the bouae, aacapad
being Imraed.
The McDoaald farm horns, together
with all ooatenta, waa completi^ do-
■troyod.
’The body of Mrs. McDonald waa
taken to KWrahaw Tuasday night
Oariiie Very
At Hosfotal
’Ibo friaoda legion of Dr. Maarico
Clarko, voetor ot Oraco Rplaoqpal
ohareb,. will rogrot- to loarn that he Is
B1 at tho CamdoB hoapUal.
Dr. RfoMKo was stricken with a
heart Mbfik last Friday and was
taken to (ae hoapUal to en ambulance.
MT. ZION BAPTIST CHURCH
Yldre wlU bo preochtag oirrlceo at
Mt don BapOat cfaarch Sunday after
noon at 4 o’clock, conducted by Rev
WUnam Rollaada.
rice repair department to oonnecUou
with their Mg Brc^ ■**7®*_;*f*V
This new department will be to
charge of 1. A. (Sort)
Mr. aad Mrs. J. B.
Mr. Rato rocaatly
Coyao Hfoctrlcal school *■
The new departme^ wfll
■arriee aad ropalr work oa aU types
o( radloa.
BUCK OWENS HFjUJS CIRCUS
AND WHJ) WEST SHOW COMBINED
Film
tadle star
LVTTLRTOH StfoifT MITHOOIST
Oasrifo K. Way. Fa-^'
Choroh school, 1$ a, m.»
^^Yoli**ara' cordially foritad to woi^
hood," and
luminorios o
in moro than fifty opootacloo
Top pofoaakry.
to latredaoo
of Thundor-
galaxy of tanboto
Wild Woot artiato
of Biff
of
HOUl PIRIT MWTtHB
Ho Criado* “ ‘
gMb M biM Ba I
MgM at toa boam of
of^Toi^ ^
om too
atoade throariag houtotoaU
atarotnddad antartatamaBk is
toa cltfaMury of CaaMoa. both young
oad old, whoa Back Owoaa. Mar of
radio. parooaMfo hoaio
hia own gigaatie etrena aaf wfM woat
11 .
M dyiairte ■■oatadoa.
la throo
(hia
wS bOti
Ooldio, .votoran etoema pteto of low
■eoro produotioao, who waa proton tod
to to« oowboy otor by tho Into Win
Rogoro.
Tho groat Felix Moralaa troupe
foatariag toa atorltog porformar, hiai-
aolf, to too atoao doato-dafylag npaiio
imra bqBdSi. which has (brillod
mniiaap of MMmi faas ta ovory pro-
vtor oaiMal «| ibt AlriUaod world. wiU
bo jui atoto#
'Do Onto aad
rial buBot wIB
proioat too
of traMM. ibftBto. toaA-Raa woa ac-
claBa
trio wlU
gfibi It
of N
ito too
aright have been an extended drag
oa too nock or a corn bottle, were
dlapooed to bo roagh and tboy bad a
labor of “dlaorderty” added to the
draaken charge.
Qae maa took top boaora pa
hatag chief offender (or hla bond waa
flxad at III tor reitolaaa drtvlBg and
■poodlng with $11 more aMed tor not
havtag a drfrar’a. Iteaaaa. Ha waa ar-
watod by Offlcura Rose and
Anotoar waa arraatad by too poMeo
tor botog drank and later ho bad a
toarge of potty laroouy oddod to too
Mottw roeord. Tho two
ooBod for a bond of $1$.
StUl anothor, atorgod with boiag
drunk and dlaordarly, vras arrootai by
Onieora Roau, Bu^
aSd was reqnlrod to post a bond of
itrj'O. A fourito tokou tm
os a draak aad itoM4orly charge waa
•ikad to isM fldJS, whtio a fifth,
ehargod with lucktom driving by Of
ffeora Bona aat McMuma peutai s $11
boui.
Tbaao aro but a fow df to#
tunatoa who ram afdal of too
ou too two dafoo amMlMfod.
Oao motoriM SMst bare a
Itooaoo aai bto cur ladtcR brakaa. But
upeorilng .to Folleo Ottlcor BiMto,
hid pfouty of
tho came prv-
ooaco fighting
the paet have
an
the team w(lf
eialon ataiff
spirit that
dfna.
Coach Ploroa lo pMimIstio to
Ol^mo Mi lo uouolty lOMing against
^ waning watt, when too matter of
hla tm>a pnopaota tola oaaaan arc
hrought up ta a ■^Tumtiii
*^y team la groat, groeu aa the
Tordaat hUla and dalas af old Var-
toout, aad It la light as tolaUedown”
ho marararod whau aakod for a pre-
fStoo stMumal,
"Wa amy taka it «■ too chin for
5*. ^ I tktok
that wbou too kapo bogto to aoordl
IM nilrII ^ifmi^aam iiT^
Ploroa waa mtohia to givo out hia
atartl^ltoaup at toa tlM tola story
waa hatog wiRtou.
Oat at tha footbaU fltM work of
mm M tho old aaat
fo PPOtfom. Faiaro to
B aweoocary
whatovor tombor wao
tram too oM kluachmu aad
a foarttor row.
Tho city Jmo hoou eoogoraUng In
••****• if? *®d IB ibaBu for toolMit’w
aad 00 a roratt too tarf to in
waa m p
SStoTaJS^h
ivaiiabio from too
having uo drlma* Itei _
brakao on hlo our. A b«Mi flgnra of
$f f wui rcriaterod ogatoat him.
Another ^vur. who aaya hlo
a to North Oaroiiaa, liind Gaarion’a
■acooth pavomauts, ao i
thronSh Bonday, ho oponod hlo
throMlo and did aema fancy, spaedtogk
But Offloar Joe McManaa, to too
pMleo oqaad car, woa to (ho raoo that
followed and It coot too ’Tirhool Jaat
$14 smaekora. 111 for apeodteg aad
$11 for not havtag say drlvora*
Ucensa.
New Diapby Radi
For FVuit (toly
At The Food Shop
A handaoate paw display eabtoat for
the aalea display of truUa axelnalvely
ta bsM installed to the Camden
Food Shop. The dlaplay rack la on
toa north d aelof toe store toward
the front antranoa, while oa too sooth
■Ido la a aimllar rack wbarato frerii
vogotaUaa aro dlaptayod.
*1110 office at the 'rear of too main
flobr has boon removed to a mosaanlao
floor back of tho purtltloa aoparattag
too sales aacthm and one of tha
■toraga aeetkma. It la reached by a
stairway to toe stock aaetloa.
too clooaof toa
toa
touht
POR CONSTRUCTION EXAMINBR
’Tbo aocretary, board of V. 8. etrlt
■ervlea axamtoara, fadaral honatag ad
mtoistratkm. Cotombla, 8. C., toanrlag
office, annonneod today on examina
tion for constraotion aramtoer, CAF4
$4,14f.M par ydar. AppUoatkMW araat
be on fOe aet later tkaa September
14. Information and application blauka
amy be obtaliiod tnm any of toe fol-
lowing placoa:
1. Secretary, board of V. 8. clvU
service examiners for tho fodoral
honatog admtalatraUoa, Columbia, 8
teaarlag riflou
1. Sacretary, beard of U. 8. civil
flonrloo oxaariaaro at say flrat or ooe-
oad elaaa post efllou
A Rogtonal Mroetor, fifto U. 8. Mvtl
aorrico rogfou, now peat ottloa build-
tag, Adauta A Sa.-
Bay Seevt Nemi
of Troto d^
At
Boy Boouta, too
with too
Oath
la a
gbNo if - to^''‘'toiBh^ Fate
■' mrni
ttoBfoei' onej^t ML
- koro N ubutta too
clouod wlUi a
wire fOBou
(Plauoo tara to page ofoht)
Man Is Burned
Hi IVuck Blue
Mak Vubldu Csleksi Firm,
N. U Ovlkw,
R. L. Oftlaw, u driver of a milk
ba*«»^ to too Camden
third digroo burao
•doat foa hMda aad arms, aa a roaolt
of a ftra that atarted lb toa track
whBo OB Brood otroot te frout of too
Kerahaw oouaty ooart bonao last San-
day afteraoeu.
Fire dapurtmant members axUa-
gttlabad the blase te too track aad
ratoad (Hitlaw to the hospital. At last
reports on WMnaaday afternoon he
waa still andor treatment thwa, but
was fuportod to bo gotttag along all
right
A. L A. Meets Today
Tho Amcricaa Legion Auxiliary
Matte ^totoy, fMAay lA at 4 o’clock
to too LogUm hatt.
Roateoa aro Mru. it K. Chowntag.
Ifou J. R. BoDc asi lira. Marta Tto-
daL
Wa extend aa lavltatiea to tonoo
who would Uko to Jota too qicriliary
tola fuar. ^
Grif Siote
; DoLoach Icara, Okariay
wad otoar low-seor«ra of
tou^ Cbmdau Coaaty riab. Borot
easnihlag foq too book. Dom to
‘ W have a goM frrfiwfoicl
MBo. RoeuuUy, ptaytog wBh
Bter lilfuvo a world amrk
te ptariag 11 holoo waa oo-
Tbo ttmo was it mtoirtao
d ISaoooadA
nua mdana that a kola waa itoffod
to Itaa touu aSuto aad a qfSr.
Wb dau’t kaaw wha bald tha watab
an fltot Match bat wa Jaat fomt bo-
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